Victorious Syrian soldiers stand on a building in the freshly captured Bustan al-Pasha district of Aleppo city in a photograph released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on 28 November. Source: SANA

North Korea has denied any involvement in a hacking attack against South Korea's Ministry of National Defense (MND), saying Seoul is pulling off "a childish plot" to divert public attention from a political crisis, Yonhap news agency quoted North Korea's state-run Uriminzokkiri website as

A new piece of legislation that has quietly made its way through the US Congress over the past several months is calling for the creation of a new committee that would take concrete and even proactive steps against Russian 'new-generation warfare' and intelligence operations targeted against

US and UK strategic surveillance aircraft are flying more than one mission a week over the Baltic, Ukraine, and Black Seas as part of an intensified effort to monitor Russian military activity in these sensitive regions.
The flights included two missions by USAF Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk

Syrian government forces appeared on the verge of overrunning the last pocket of opposition fighters in Aleppo on 9 December, the rebels having lost more than 75% of their territory in the city since the Russian-backed offensive began on 18 November.
The latest advances involved Syrian troops

The French government has donated 15 new vehicles, along with weapons, communication, and ballistic equipment to Cameroon for use by the country's Special Forces.
The handover to the Cameroonian military took place on 29 November in Yaoundé during a ceremony attended by Defence Minister Joseph

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Key Points
A long-expected ground assault on the rebel enclave in Aleppo city has made rapid progress
Most of the rebels holding the northern sector appear to have retreated before becoming cut off
A ground offensive by pro-government forces in Syria that began on 25 November made rapid progress

The rotary-wing (RW) portion of the UK Military Flight Training System (UKMFTS) programme took a step forward with the announcement on 8 December that the first of 29 Airbus Helicopters H135 Juno platforms had arrived in-country.
Helicopter G-CJIW arrived at Airbus Helicopters' UK headquarters at

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Islamic State fighters inside Mosul will be heavily outnumbered by Iraqi security forces and will rely on a network of tunnels to launch suicide IED attacks and potentially a chemical weapons attack in defending the militant group's hold on the city.
IHS Markit assesses that the Islamic

The Islamic State's use of suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (SVBIEDs) has presented such a serious challenge to Iraqi forces trying to capture Mosul that the US-led coalition has disabled four of the city's five bridges to make it harder for them to get to the east bank of the